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| From | Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | new WD passport filesystem? |
| Date | 2011-07-22 11:31 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <87sjpyxrfw.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> (permalink) |
I've been using various WD Passport external USB drives over the years
with luck and so recently purchased a 1 Tb USB 3.0 drive (I understand
that the debian Squeeze kernel supports USB 3). I'm having trouble
mounting it. I had presumed it came formatted as VFAT16, but:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000170586112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121597 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00042ada
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121598 976728064 7 HPFS/NTFS
Formatted HPFS (OS/2?)/NTFS? So I try:
# mount -t hpfs /dev/sdb1 /media/backup
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
...
$ ls /dev | grep sdb1
sdb1
$ dmesg
...
... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953458176 512-byte logical
blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
...
... sdb: sdb1
... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
... FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
filesystem will be case sensitive!
... FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
... VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
... FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset...
... FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
... VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
... HPFS: Bad magic ... probably not HPFS
... HPFS: Bad magic ... probably not HPFS
So is it HPFS or not? If it is, why the FAT error messages? If it is
not, why did fdisk tell a lie? Has hpfs/ntfs become the default
file system on devices these days?
Haines Brown
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new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 11:31 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-07-22 11:37 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 16:46 +0100
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 12:28 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-22 17:43 -0500
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 21:27 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-22 15:50 +0000
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 12:37 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-22 17:36 +0000
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-07-22 14:03 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 19:42 +0100
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 21:56 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID> - 2011-07-22 22:50 -0500
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-23 05:01 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID> - 2011-07-23 13:32 -0500
Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-24 08:28 -0400
Re: new WD passport filesystem? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2011-07-26 16:08 +0000
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Re: new WD passport filesystem? felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID> - 2011-07-28 18:46 -0500
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